Hey guys!
I promised an extra long update for last night, and I was going to combine
this chappie and the last one...well I didn't so here it is!
I'm actually staring to like this one now...
Still love ya tons!
MWAH!
--Autumn--
So, how did Paul end up with a bloody nose?
Surprisingly, it wasn't Jesse this time.
We were leaving to go find someone to talk to or something, because after seeing that Paul's grandfather was #21, it kinda creeped us out.
But then we remembered that Cee was asleep on the couch, and if he was a fruitloop, we didn't want her to get in the middle of his fruitloopish ways. So, Paul volunteered to go wake her up. I guess I should have warned him that she was a light sleeper, since the next thing I know, she sat straight up, hitting Paul with her head and sending him flying backwards screaming in pain.
"WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE AND MY NOSE!!??" He screamed as he put both of his hands to his nose. I groaned and said, "Cee, go get a towel or something and ice." She nodded and ran out of the room to get it.
I sat beside Paul, who was now on the couch.
He glared up at me, because I was starting to laugh, and said, "I don't see why this is so fuddy." That made me laugh, because his nose was starting to swell now and it was becoming harder to speak. He groaned again as Cee came back in and put the towel on his face to stop it from bleeding. After a while, he put the ice on it.
"Let me see it." I said. He sat up and took the ice pack off of his face. I smiled at the big blue and black spot on his nose and said, "Well, at least it's not broken."
Paul got up and said to Cee, "Between you and Suze's WWE hothead wrestler of a boyfriend, I'm going to so have to have reconstructive surgery!"
"Come on, Drama Queen. Let's get out of here." I said. He nodded and said, "Yeah."
"Paul's grandfather?" David repeated that night at my house. I nodded and said, "Yeah. And my grandmother."
"That's seriously weird." Doc said, shaking his head.
The front door opened and we all turned to look to see Jesse walking in. "Ok, what's so important? Because I-" He stopped when he saw Paul's face and smiled.
"Don't." Paul said, but since his nose was swollen, it came out 'Dob'.
"Oh, I won't." Jesse said, smiling as he sat down. "So, what happened?"
"I told you dob do it, de Bilva." Paul shouted. That made me and Jesse laugh. Paul groaned and laid back on the couch, with his eyes closed so he couldn't see us.
I was still smiling as I turned to David and said, "Well, I'm suppossed to go down to New York this weekend... why don't we see if we can turn that into a little family thing?" He smiled when I said that.
"Yeah, then we could get your grandmother to talk." He said.
"And if she doesn't, we'll just snoop around. We're good at that." I said, remembering last Christmas when me and Doc snooped around the house, found our Christmas presents and opened them, then wrapped them back up and no one ever knew.
So, that night, me and Doc went into our parents' (shudder) room. Yeah, we totally knocked first, gosh.
"Hey, guys...we were wondering, you know since I'm leaving for New York this weekend..." I started.
Mom and Andy lowered thier books and looked at us. "Well, can David come too?"
Silence.
They both looked at each other for a long time. Mom made a face and Andy sighed, saying, "I don't see why not."
Doc smiled at me and said, "Thanks, guys!"
Mom said, "Why the sudden intrest in going?" David looked up at me and said, "I just wanted to spend quality time with my big sister." At that we both put an arm around each other.
Mom smiled at us, while Andy gace us that 'are-you-freakin-serious' look.
As we walked out, I said to Doc, "I'm rubbing off on you!"
He rolled his eyes and said, "Shut up, Suze."
Turns out, my little trip turned out to be more than just a family thing. Jesse and Paul came too. And Cee too, for someone unknown reason...I myself, think it was because of Paul.
Gosh, who would have thought?
My phone rang as we got out the plane when we landed in New York. "Hello?"
"Suze!" Gina's voice came over the phone. "Where are you?"
I smiled, as I walked down the stairs and said, "We just landed."
"Aw, cool! I'm in the parking lot waiting for ya." When she heard Jesse talking to Paul she asked. "You brought him?"
I felt myself blush and said, "Yeah. I brought him." She shrieked. I mean, literally shrieked.
"So, I finally get to meet this mysterious Jesse." I smiled as I resisted the urge to say 'You already have'. She laughed and said, "The same Jesse you start making out with frequently while I'm talking to you."
I laughed too and said, "That was only one time..." Silence. I sighed and said, "Ok. Whatever." I walked over and grabbed my bags. "We'll meet you in a second."
"Rodger dodger." She said, before she hang up.
I saw her waving at me from her car. I started to walk over to her, but I realized I forgot one of my bags.
"I'll get it, querida." Jesse said.
"Are you sure?" I asked sweetly. He smiled and shook his head as he walked off.
"SUZE!" Gina ran over to me and put me in a death grip. "Oh my gosh! I've missed you so much!" She looked down at David and said, "Hey, squirt."
She smiled at Cee and hugged her, "Hey, girly."
I leaned up in her ear and whispered, "Don't say anything about Adam."
She nodded and said, "Good to see you again." She stared at Paul with a smile on her face. He smiled back and said, "Hey, I'm-"
"Jesse, right?" She asked. I smacked my head at the insult I knew it was to both Paul and Jesse.
Paul looked disgusted and said, "No...Paul Slater." He stuck out his hand and she put hers in his, smiling.
Cee stared at her in horror.
Man, my life is so...soap opera-ish. I mean, have you noticed, we're all connected in Carmel? Gosh, I'm like friggin' Paris Hilton. Everyone dates everyone so therefore I'm connected to people like Kelly Prescott, to even lower in the food chain...coughMaria de Silvacough.
"Here you go, querida." Came that oh-so-sexy voice from behind me.
As I took my bag, I felt one of his strong arms go around me.
Gina's jaw dropped to the floor as she stared at him. Jesse smiled and said, "I'm-"
"Jesse." Gina sighed. I sighed myself, but it wasn't for the same reason as she did. "I'm Gina..."
He smiled again and said, "I know...ow!" He said, after I hit him in the stomach, which made Paul laugh.
After getting over it, Jesse said, "I mean, I've heard a lot about you."
Gina was still in Jesseland.
Couldn't blame the poor girl. She's only human.
"How did you..." Gina started as we walked off. "I mean, what-...I envy you!" I laughed and linked my arm with hers as I said, "I know...everyone does."
She laughed to as we ran to catch up with the others.
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"So, you think he's 'The One'?" Gina asked me that night as we got ready for bed.
She had moved out of her parent's house after an arguement they had gotten into. I still wasn't sure what the argument had started from, but I didn't think that G wanted me to know. I mean, I am her best friend. She would have told me if she wanted to.
I felt myself blush for like the 10th time that day. She smiled and said, "Aw! Suze!" I threw my pillow at her.
"Gosh, would you girls shut up?" Paul, who wasn't quite used to the time difference, yelled from the other room. Good thing she has two huge bedrooms in her apartment.
I laughed as we fell back on to the bed. Cee waddled in a few minutes later and plopped down on the pop up bed.
"So, you got boyfriend?" I asked her. She smiled to let me know I was right. Well, almost.
"He's not my boyfriend boyfriend. I mean, I like him but...he doesn't know. He's older than me." Gina said, staring at the ceiling.
"How much older?" I asked as Cee, who suddenly became interested in the conversation, came up to sit with us.
"A lot older." She sighed.
I smiled and said, "It can't be that much older. I mean, what is it? A century and a half?" Cee smiled at that one. Gina, who obvisouly didn't know since I hadn't told her yet, said, "Five years."
I smiled again, "G, Jesse's four years older than me. It's not that bad. I mean, my mom didn't like it at first but..."
"No, Jesse's the picture of every mom's dream husband for their daughter." She said looking over at me. "He is, and you know it. Dereck's just..."
"Gothic?" Cee asked, hopefully.
"No. He was put in jail for a while for something he didn't do." She said.
"What?"
"A murder." Gina said, hesitantly.
I looked at her to see if she was joking, but she wasn't.
"Gina..." I said, my voice shaking."You're not serious, are you?"
She nodded and said, "He didn't do it. That's why they let him out. My mom doesn't believe it, and that's why I moved out. Suze, he didn't do it and you can help me prove it."
"How?" I asked her.
"Talk to the ghost of the person that was killed." She said, in a dead serious tone.
"Gina..."
"Suze, please. I really like this guy." She said, with tears in her eyes. "I really do."
I looked at her for a minute, before saying, "I'll see what I can do, ok?"
She hugged me and said, "Thank you!"
I smiled and said, "No problem."
After a few minutes, she went to sleep. I walked over to the window, and looked out at the city that was below us. It looked so familar. I looked out further, and across the street I could see my old apartment. Where I had seen my first ghost. My old house.
I say old, because New York wasn't my home anymore.
My home was across the country.
My home was Carmel.
"Susannah?" I heard a knock at the door. I looked around to see Jesse standing right there. He made his way around the sleeping Cee and Gina and walked over to me.
"Are you ok, querida?" He asked me as he wrapped his arms around me.
"Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" I asked him.
He shrugged and said, "I don't know. I mean, you've just been really quiet since we landed."
I smiled and said, "So, when I'm not babbling, something has to be wrong with me?"
He laughed and said, "You said it, not me."
I smiled as he kissed the top of my head and said, "It's Gina."
"What, bothering you about how we met?" He asked.
"No, well, yes...but that's not what's wrong. The guy she's in love with is a lot older than her-"
He smiled and said, "I'm sure that it's nowhere close to 150. She'll be fine."
"No, Cadaver Breath." I said, turning around to face him. "He was convicted of murder." Jesse's eyes got wide when I said that. I nodded and said, "Yeah. They let him out early. Only she says that he didn't do it."
Jesse leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. "I don't understand how this involves you though."
"She wants me to talk to the ghost of the victim." I said.
Jesse was quiet for a minute, before saying, "Are you going to do it?"
"I don't know." I sighed. "I mean, I want to help her. She's my best friend...but...I don't know." I looked over when she shifted in the bed.
Jesse looked back over at me and said, "Just be careful, ok?"
I smiled, "Am I ever anything but?" He smiled and kissed my forehead.
After he left, I looked back out the window, and down at the glowing sign just below us.
I don't know what it had just said, but now 21 was blinking on it.
I felt my heart give a little leap...or maybe it just started beating faster.
It felt as if I couldn't breath...
My heart hurt everytime that it beat...
I grabbed on to the wall...trying to catch my breah as I fell.
"Jesse..." I choked.
As everything started getting darker, I heard something that now gives me chills down my spine to think about it.
Someone was humming softly...
"I like the way you walk..."
It kept getting louder and louder.
"I like the way you talk, I like the way you walk."
I felt a icy cold rush go through me.
"Oh Susie Q..."
Pain was rushing through me.
"Baby I love you, Susie Q"
The next thing I heard was Paul and Jesse yelling for me to wake up...but I was already gone.
"You say that you'll be true.
Baby I love you, Susie Q"
R&R my lovlies!
Love ya.
Much Jesse love...
XOXOXO
-SASTMJ-